Kauhaurangi Tuihono / Online Digital Technology Webinars for June

Use the links in the title or visit ahikaroa.kiatakatu.ac.nz to register

Kauhaurangi Tuihono / Online Webinars went fully virtual from April 15th and will remain virtual until the end of Term 2. Online Webinars are no more than 30 minutes long, limited to 20 people giving you ample opportunity to discuss and explore the resource with those at your virtual hui.

I have only attended one or two digital readiness online webinars in the past, however, I am planning to attend a few more this month. I am interested in the Design Process two-part series. ICT versus Digital Technologies could be interesting, it's sometimes difficult to separate the two. I have done a lot of work with ScratchJr so this would also be interesting to see what others are creating with ScratchJr. It is worth mentioning you can do a force install and pin of ScratchJr from the Google Admin dashboard. This means you can give all your students a link to the app on their Chromebooks. I have recently done this for all the Year 3 and 4 students at Edmonton School and it worked well. If your thinking of registering for one or more the webinars leave a note in the comments and I may see you there.

Date	Title	Time
Thursday 28 May - Thursday 9 July	Code Club 4 Teachers - Matariki Four-part series	3.30PM-5.00PM
Monday, June 8 & 15	A Design Process Two-part series	3.30PM - 4.00PM
Monday, June 8	How binary digits rule the world	4.00PM - 4.30PM
Monday, June 8	Introduction to DDDO Pīkau Yrs 0-6	4.30PM - 5.00PM
Tuesday June 9 & Wednesday June 17	Fun with Photos Yrs 1-4 Two part series	4.00PM-4.30PM 4.30PM - 5.00PM
Wednesday June 10	Integrating technology: Te Manaaki i a Papatūānuku Rauemi Pīkau Yrs 7-8	3.30PM-4.00PM
Thursday June 11 Thursday June 18	Planning for an Authentic Context Yrs 1-4 Two part series	3.30PM-4.00PM
Monday June 15	Integrating technology: Te Manaaki i a Papatūānuku Rauemi Pīkau Yrs 7-8 Repeat session	3.30PM-4.00PM
Tuesday June 16	Senior Leaders and Digital Technologies	7.30PM-8.00PM
Wednesday June 17 - July 24	Eye Spy Algorithmic Thinking Three-part series	3.30PM - 4.00PM
Thursday 18 June	Solving problems by design Yrs 5-6	3.30PM-4.00PM
Thursday 18 June	ICT versus Digital Technologies	4.30PM -5.00PM
Monday 22 June	Integrating technology: Hauora Rauemi Pīkau Yrs 4-6	3.30PM-400PM
Monday 22 & 29 June	A Design Process Two-part series	4.00PM - 4.30PM
Tuesday 23 June	Pouahi Digital Leaders - Teaching programming and Code Club 4 Teachers	3.30PM-4.00PM
Tuesday 23 June	Senior Leaders & Digital Technologies	4.30PM-5.00PM
Tuesday 23 & 30 June	Exploring the possibilities of ScratchJr, Yrs 1-4 Two-part series	Session 1: 4.30PM-5.00PM Session 2: 3.30PM-4.00PM
Wednesday 24 June	Solving problems by design, Yrs 5-6	3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Wednesday 24 June & 1 July	Planning for an Authentic Context, Yrs 1-4 Two-part series	4.00PM-4.30PM
Wednesday 24 June	ICT versus Digital Technologies Repeat session	7.30PM-8.00PM
Monday 29 June	Digital Technologies in the wider New Zealand Curriculum: How does it fit?	3.30PM-4.00PM
Thursday 2 July	Integrating technology: Te Manaaki i a Papatūānuku Rauemi Pīkau Yrs 7-8 Repeat session	3.30PM-4.00PM

Kia Takatū ā-Matihiko | Digital Readiness · 144 Kilmore Street · Christchurch, Canterbury 8013 · New Zealand

Technological Tools for Playful Learning

I received this email from Tufts.

We at the DevTech Research Group at Tufts University hope this message finds you and your 

loved ones in good health.

Dr. Marina Bers (professor, department chair at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study 

and Human Development and director of DevTech Research Group) taught a course titled 

CSHD 145: Technological Tools for Playful Learning this Spring. 

For the course's final project, undergraduate and graduate students from across disciplines 

at Tufts University created 3-hour literacy-based curricula to help children learn to code using 

platforms such as ScratchJr.

We wanted to share their curricula with you as they might be helpful resources to keep your kids 

engaged in educational ways in the midst of this pandemic.

Shared Lesson Plans and Resouces

Note- the title links to the lesson plans created in Google Docs. 

You will need to go to the File menu and make a copy.  

ScratchJr Introduction using Virtual Learning

by Kallisti St. John & Katey Yang

The focus of this curriculum is for the child to complete interactive challenges and activities with the recorded video and for the parent to help set up with the ultimate goal of creating their own masterpiece through Scratch Jr. This enables the child to be creative on their own with little outside influence, and it also enforces individual problem solving and critical thinking.

Who Wants to Be a superhero?

by Khanh Nguyen, Nayoung Kim & Annie Huang

This curriculum allows children to create their own characters with superpowers through different coding blocks. With the character they created, they will learn to deal with conflicts, problem-solving, and find resolutions to conflicts. This curriculum will also introduce concepts of storytelling and literacy.

A ScratchJr Curriculum for Young Storytellers

by Yifan Zuo & Maitreyi Kale

This curriculum exposes children to the basics of coding with ScratchJr while teaching them to recognize important elements of stories and helpful thought processes that go into writing them. Including three e-books that will be incorporated into each session: Session One covers word bubbles and dialogue-writing, Session Two goes overtime sequence, and Session Three focuses on changing scenes in storytelling.

Outside-In: an at-home ScratchJr curriculum

by Jen Gray & Rebecca Glass

Given the current situation, many parents are home with their children, who need frequent attention and stimulation. This curriculum offers a constructive and fun way to make the most of these circumstances by transforming our all-too familiar homes into creative hubs. This curriculum will make use of household objects to introduce powerful ideas of computer science.

ScratchJr Superheroes

by Juliana Harris & David Zabner

 

In this lesson, kids (ages 4-6) will learn to program using superheroes and ScratchJr. This lesson is unique in that it contains opportunities to practice programming without a screen, use a storyboard, work collaboratively, and build social-emotional skills. This curriculum includes printable cutouts of superheroes, ScratchJr programming blocks, and a storyboard.

Whack-a-corona

by Abrina La Rose, Kianie Ramirez & Yaqara Patterson

 

This activity will provide health and safety tips for parents and guardians to partake in and discuss with their families. In this curriculum, there is a guide on how to use ScratchJr with photos included. Finally, it will provide activities for parents and children to collaborate.

https://www.scratchjr.org/

If you are not familiar with the ScratchJr website it's you should take a look. Under the Learn tab, you can find Tips and Hints and under the Teach tab, you can find nine downloadable activities. I will feature these in a series of posts and make suggestions on how to use them. The first activity for example Drive Across the City can be integrated with maths and also makes a good story starter.

Once children have experienced the starter activities there are many more ideas to explore like the Playground Curriculum. I think Lesson 7 - Mini Golf will make for a fun challenge.      

       Mini Golf